Wayne Vivier is an award winning artist practising in Pretoria, South Africa. He was born in 1976 in Welkom and raised in Pretoria. After obtaining a B. Sc Computer Science at UNISA and working as a software developer for six years in Johannesburg, he returned to Pretoria to continue his art studies at Tshwane University of Technology where he obtained his M. Tech Fine Arts in March 2011. He has held Nine solo/2-person exhibitions, participated in numerous curated exhibitions and national art competitions including, Sasol new signatures, ABSA l'Atelier, Thami Mnyele and State of the art gallery. He was awarded runner-up in the ‘For the love of art’ competition presented by Longstreet Art Lovers 1932 gallery in 2016. His work forms part of many public, private and corporate collections.